Nem Khan Dim (former Ph.D. student of CHEC), Kibum Kim (former Post-Doc member of CHEC) and Prof. Xiangshi Ren (CHEC) received the best community paper award in “3rd IEEE International Conference in Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP) in Hong Kong, China” which held on May 29th to 31th 2017. The paper entitled “An Exploratory Study of Marking Menu Selection by Visually Impaired Participants”.

Li YANG, who is scheduled to start his Ph.D. at CHEC from October 2017, won the 3-years Japanese Government Scholarship (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: MEXT or MONBUKAGAKUSHO in Japanese). Li YANG’s research interest is interaction design for smartphones.

Jingxin LIU (visiting bachelor student of CHEC), Sayan Sarcar (CHEC), Prof. Xiangshi Ren (CHEC), Chaklam Silpasuwanchai (CHEC) and Zhenxin Wang (CHEC) won the best poster award in “The 5th International Symposium of Chinese CHI in Guangzhou, China” held on June 7th to 9th. The paper entitled “Exploring the Design Space of Smartphone Text Entry Interfaces for Elderly with Tremor”. Jingxin LIU also got an opportunity to keep on her master career at CHEC from October 2017.